Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he's open to requiring parents to prove their citizenship in the birth room (a logistical nightmare for hospitals), in order to prevent illegal immigrants...
Music is my religion. I worship at many different churches; I'm a raging polytheist. I hit three different services this past week and each was blissful in its own way, a reminder to step away from...
My last article for Global Comment explored how we have lost our common architecture of activism that created and guided mass movements of the past. I argued that the individualistic modern world...
Social media isn't going away anytime soon. Facebook and Twitter, blogging and the latest Google app are here to stay, it seems. But aside from giving us new ways to socialize, can these new...
Steven Berkoff goes all, “Old Testament on our ass” with his contemporary reworking of Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, Samson and Delilah and Moses and Pharaoh. Using the Bible, as social...
The human body is amazing. That's a fatuous thing to say, and I imagine it's been wheezed out by every sweaty high school teacher ever to lead a group of giggling, weiner-pointing students through...
What we didn't know that we knew about Afghanistan In his book Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, philosopher Slajov Zizek laid out an ad-hoc taxonomy for various kinds of knowledge, via a reference to then...
The train was departing at 11: 23 p.m. At 11:06 p.m., I had just bounded out of my building, and was standing on the side of the road, hand outstretched. A small sedan heeded my desperate call. "Can...
Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast are rock and roll scientists, genetic engineers surfing on the flotsam and jetsam of their DNA experiments that just might hold the cure for “Parkinson’s,...
Everything you loved or hated about San Diego Comic-Con seemed to get bigger this year: the lines, the parties, the announcements. But now that the post-event ennui (or #connui, as it was quickly...
